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Psalms 147:13

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

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ASV

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

KJV

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

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7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
חִ֭זַּקChi.zakhe has strengthenedH2388 →
בְּרִיחֵ֣יbe.ri.Chei[the] bars ofH1280 →
שְׁעָרָ֑יִךְshe.'a.Ra.yikhgates yourH8179 →
בֵּרַ֖ךְbe.Rakhhe has blessedH1288 →
בָּנַ֣יִךְba.Na.yikhchildren yourH1121 →
בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃be.kir.Bekhin midst yourH7130 →

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Psalms 128:3–6Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.Psalms 115:14–15May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.Isaiah 44:3–5For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.Jeremiah 30:19–20Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.Psalms 125:2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.Nehemiah 12:30After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.Lamentations 2:8–9The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.Zechariah 8:3–5This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”Nehemiah 3:1–16At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.Psalms 48:11–14Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.Lamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.Nehemiah 6:1When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—Nehemiah 7:1When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.Psalms 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.Nehemiah 7:3And I told them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their own homes.”Luke 19:42–44and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.Daniel 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

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